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ALLEN, JACOB STINER, Jr., (21), son of Jacob 
Stiner Allen, who enlisted on April 23, 1861, 
in the " Warren Guards " (Second North Car- 
olina Volunteers, afterwards Company F, 
Twelfth North Carolina Regiment) ; Courier 
on staff of General R. E. Rodes ; served 
throughout the entire war, and arrived at 
home from Appomattox on the 17th of April, 
1865. 

ANDREWS, ALEXANDER BOYD, Jr., (1), son of 
Captain Alexander Boyd Andrews. Captain 
Andrews entered the service in 1861, and on 
May 16, in that year, was commissioned Second 
Lieutenant in Company E, Ninth Regiment 
of North Carolina Troops (First North Caro- 
lina Cavalry) ; promoted to First Lieutenant 
September 23, 1861 ; promoted to Captain of 
Company B July 12, 1862 ; served with his 
regiment through many campaigns and bat- 
tles, and was shot through the lungs in a cav- 
alry fight in Madison County, Virginia, on the 
22d of September, 1863. 

*The figures after the names of members denote the 
numbers of their credentials, which the Camp has on 
file. 



AYER, HENRY ("HAL") WILLIAM, (4), son of 
Lieutenant Henry William Ayer. Lieuten- 
ant Ayer first entered the service as a private 
in the " Thomas ville Rifles," (afterwards 
Company B, Fourteenth North Carolina Reg- 
iment) ; on May 26th, 1861, was commis- 
sioned Second Lieutenant by Governor John 
W. Ellis ; afterwards detailed by Governor 
Zebulon B. Vance to make a tour of the fac- 
tories of the State for the purpose of ascer- 
taining what operatives were subject to con- 
scription ; later entered the Twenty-eighth 
Regiment, without rank, and was killed at 
the Battle of Reams's Station, August 25, 
1864. 

CONN, DIXON l/ASS, (25), son of Sergeant Dixon 
Green Conn. Sergeant Conn enlisted in first 
company raised in Franklin County, North 
Carolina; on April 16, 1861, his company was 
officially accepted by Governor Ellis and be- 
came Company L, Fifth Volunteers, after- 
terwards Fifteenth North Carolina Regiment ; 
present at Battle of Dam No. 1 : immediately 
thereafter promoted to First Sergeant ; at Bat- 
tle of Williamsburg (in reserve), and Seven 
Days Fight around Richmond ; received five 
gun-shot wounds in the single Battle of Mal- 
vern Hill ; his Company transferred to Thirty- 
second North Carolina Regiment and desit^- 



nated Company K therein ; in January, 1863, 
was discharged on account of wounds ; in the 
spring of 1864, joined naval forces at Charles- 
ton, South .Carolina ; served on steamer "Pee 
Dee" and in Naval Battalion at Drewry's 
Bluff ; captured at Battle of Harper's Farm 
(" Green Plains ") on April 6, 1865, and im- 
prisoned at Point Lookout, Fortess Monroe, 
and Newport News. 

DENSON, THOMAS COWAN, (17), son of Cap- 
tain Claudius Baker Denson. Captain Denson 
commanded the "Confederate Grays" of 
Duplin County, being commissioned April 27, 
1861 ; in 1862, entered Topographical Engineer 
Corps ; afterwards commissioned Second Lieu- 
tenant in Company A, Second Regiment of 
Engineers ; served in construction and defence 
of batteries on the Cape Fear and on the 
Sounds ; in campaign under General Joseph 
E. Johnston and elsewhere ; detached on April 
8, 1865, to accompany General Bragg, and com- 
manded Company on retreat to South Caro- 
lina ; ordered home after surrenders of Lee 
•and of Johnston. 

DURHAM, BAXTER, (20), son of Columbus 
Durham, who enlisted on April 22, 1861, in 
Company E, Twelfth North Carolina Regi- 
ment, and served throughout the war ; was in 



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the battles of Cold Harbor, the Wilderness, 
Ohancellorsville, Gettysburg, and many oth- 
ers ; wounded four times. 

HAYWOOD, MARSHALL DeLANCEY, (2), son of 
Surgeon Richard Bennehan Haywood. On 
January 20, 1862, Dr. Haywood was commis- 
sioned Surgeon, with the rank of Major, on 
the staff of Major-General James G. Martin, 
North Carolina State Troops, by Governor 
Henry T. Clark ; later in that year was Senior 
Surgeon of North Carolina Troops by appoint- 
ment from Governor Zebulon B. Vance ; after 
each of the battles of Seven Pines, Malvern 
Hill, Spottsylvania Court-House, Cold Har- 
bor, and Chancellorsville, was detailed for 
duty in Virginia ; was one of the commission- 
ers who surrendered the City of Raleigh, 
North Carolina, to Sherman's Army on the 
13th of April, 1865. 

HECK, WILLIAM HARRY, (5), son of Colonel 
Jonathan McGee Heck. Colonel Heck was 
commissioned by Governor Letcher, of Vir- 
ginia, to raise a body of troops, which after- 
wards became the Thirty-first Virginia Regi- 
ment ; at Rich Mountain, this regiment was 
defeated and captured by a superior force of 
United States troops, under General McClel- 
lan ; after this. Colonel Heck was released on 
parole. 



HILL, DANIEL HARVEY, (19), son of Lieuten- 
ant-General Daniel Harvey Hill, General 
Hill organized the first camp of instruction 
in North Carolina and was elected Colonel of 
the First North Carolina Regiment, which, by 
re-arrangement of troops, was placed between 
the Eleventh and Twelfth Regiments and 
known as the "Bethel Regiment;" while 
holding the rank of Colonel, he fought the 
first serious battle of the war, at Bethel ; Brig- 
adier-General, September, 1861 ; Major-Gen- 
eral, March, 1862; Lieutenant-General, July, 
1863 ; at Seven Pines his Division . fought the 
battle almost alone and also took a prominent 
part in the battles of Cold Harbor and Mal- 
vern Hill ; in the Maryland campaign his Di- 
vision held McClellan's army in check all day, 
and gave Lee time to concentrate his forces 
at Sharpsburg ; he and his Division figured 
conspicuously at Sharpsburg (" Antietam ") ; 
in 1863 he was sent to command a Corps in the 
Army of the West under General Bragg ; took 
a prominent part in the Battle of Chica- 
mauga ; commanded a Corps when Johnston 
retreated from Georgia to North Carolina. 

HINSDALE, SAMUEL JOHNSTON, (12), son of 
Colonel John Wetmore Hinsdale. Colonel 
Hinsdale entered the service in July, 1861, as 
Second Lieutenant on the staff of General 



Theophilus H. Holmes, in Virginia ; in 1862, 
he was transferred to the staff of General J. 
Johnston Pettigrew and served i;hereon as 
Adjutant-General until the Battle of Seven 
Pines ; in the Seven Days Fight around Kich- 
mond, he acted as Adjutant-General on the 
staff of General Pender: after this was again 
on the staff of General Holmes ; afterwards 
promoted to the rank of Colonel and placed 
in command of the Third Regiment of Junior 
Reserves (Seventy-second North Carolina) ; 
was present in the battles of Seven Pines, 
Malvern Hill, Mechanics ville, Cold Harbor, 
Frazier's Farm, Helena (Arkansas), Kinston, 
and Bentonsville ; surrendered with the Army 
of General Joseph E. Johnston at High Point, 
North Carolina, April 26, 1865. 

HUGHES, CHRISTOPHER MILLER (14), son of 
Lieutenant William Henry Hughes. Lieu- 
tenant Hughes entered the service as a pri- 
vate in " Grimes's Battery," of Portsmouth, 
Virginia, on the 20th of April, 1861, and about 
a year later became Sergeant; on June 11, 
1864, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 
and transferred to Lee Battery, in Early's 
Corps ; afterwards was officer in command of 
Cooper's Battery ; participated in many bat- 
tles and was severely wounded at Winchester ; 
surrendered at Appomattox. 



HUGHES, WILLIAM HENRY, Jr., (18), son of 
Lieutenant William Henry Hughes, above 
mentioned, 

JOHNSON, CHARLES COUSINS, (18), son of 
Corporal Joseph Jackson Johnson. Corporal 
Johnson enlisted on April 7, 1862 ; assigned to 
Company C, Fifty-third North Carolina Regi- 
ment ; for fourteen months was on detailed 
duty guarding prisoners at Danville, Virginia, 
and for fourteen months served on James 
River defences opposite Richmond; present 
at battles of Burgess's Mill, Hatcher's Run, 
and Petersburg; on March 25, 1865, captured 
at Petersburg and confined at Point Lookout 
until June 25, after close of hostilities. 

KEN D RICK, HUGH O'KEEFFE, (15), son of Cap- 
tain William Bull Kendrick. Captain Ken- 
drick served in the Fifteenth Alabama Regi- 
ment through all of Stonewall Jackson's op- 
erations in the Valley of Virginia ; was in the 
battles around Richmond, at Cedar Moun- 
tain, luka, Missionary Ridge (wounded in two 
fights last mentioned) ; commanded picket 
line at Lookout Mountain, where he was cap- 
tured but escaped ; was in Vicksburg during 
the entire siege and was taken prisoner there. 



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McGEACHY, ROBERT SHERWOOD, M. D., (24), 

son of Sergeant Alexander McGeachy. Ser- 
geant McGeachy enlisted as a private in Com- 
pany G, Twenty-fourth North Carolina Regi- 
ment on June 14, 1861 ; promoted to Corporal, 
May 16, 1862 ; promoted to Sergeant, Septem- 
ber 17, 1862 ; served in the various battles in 
which his regiment figured and was severely 
wounded towards the close of the war. 

MONIE, JOHN MILLER, Jr., (3), son of Corpo- 
ral John Miller Monie. Corporal Monie en- 
listed in Company H, Ninth North Carolina 
Regiment (First North Carolina Cavalry); 
served with his Regiment in the many battles 
in which it engaged from Sharpsburg ("An- 
tietam") till March 30, 1865, when he was 
severely wounded and taken prisoner at Cham- 
berlain's Run ("Five Forks"), near Dinwid- 
die Court-House, Virginia. 

RIDDICK, WALLACE CARL, (23), son of Lieu- 
tenant Wiley Goodman Riddick. Lieutenant 
Riddick entered the service in December, 
1861, as a member of Company I, Forty-first 
North Carolina Regiment (Third North Caro- 
lina Cavalry), and became First Sergeant; 
promoted to Second Lieutenant on June 24, 
1863 ; was in battles of Washington (North 
Carolina), Kinston, Hanover Court-House, 



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Cold Harbor, Drewry's Bluff, White Oak 
Swamp, Mechanics ville. Burgess's Mill, and 
the fights around Richmond and Petersburg 
during the last two years of the war ; though 
present under Lee at Appomattox, he did not 
surrender, but made his way to General 
Joseph E.Johnston in North Carolina; was 
one of the three men who first brought the 
news of Lee's surrender to Hillsborough, 
North Carolina ; paroled in Raleigh after 
General Johnston's surrender ; wounded at 
Washington, North Carolina. 

STRONACH, JOHN BARTON, (6), son of Ser- 
geant William Carter Stronach. Sergeant 
Stronach enlisted as a private in Company H, 
Forty-seventh North Carolina Regiment, on 
December 31, 1862; later promoted to Ser- 
geant; served under General Roger A, Pry or 
in " Blackwater Campaign " near Suffolk, Vir- 
ginia, in December, 1862 ; afterwards was in 
operations around Washington and New Bern, 
North Carolina ; received shell wound in knee 
atBristoe Station, October 14, 1863 ; present at 
the AVilderness ; was at the "Horse-shoe" and 
in the " charge on the left " at Spotfsylvania 
Court-House ; at Gaines's Mill, Second Cold 
Harbor, Petersburg, Old Yellow Tavern, 
and Davis's Farm ; shot through right shoul- 
der and lung at Reams's Station, Virginia, 



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August 25, 1864, and being permanently disa- 
bled was detailed as Clerk to the Medical Ex- 
amining Board of Heth's Division ; surren- 
dered at Appomattox, 

STRONACH VAN DALEN, (11), son of Alexan- 
der Baron Stronach, who enlisted on the 1st of 
June, 1864, in Company B, Thirteenth Battal- 
ion of North Carolina Artillery ; present at 
the battles of Kinston, Bentonsville, etc.; 
paroled at Ealeigh, North Carolina, on the 
12th of May, 1865. 

WATSON, WALTER LYNDALL, (16), son of Cap- 
tain Henry Lyndall Watson. In April, 1861, 
Captain Watson entered the service as a 
private in the "Johnston Light Infantry," 
which was later made a part of the Fifth 
North Carolina Regiment; elected Second 
Lieutenant soon after enlistment ; was in 
first battle of Manasas (first " Bull Run") and 
soon thereafter became drill-master at Camp 
Mangum, near Raleigh ; later joined his old 
company and was again elected Lieutenant ; 
present in the Valley Campaign and at Fred- 
ericksburg ; captured at Winchester and con- 
fined in Fort Delaware ; was elected Captain 
while in prison ; wounded at Gettysburg and 
in the Valley Campaign; for a time was Act- 
ing Adjutant of Regiment, and on several 



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occasions commanded Sharpshooters ; sur- 
vives war but recorded in Roster as " killed." 

WHITAKER, DAVID SPIER, (9), son of Lieu- 
tenant Spier Whitaker. Lieutenant Yv^hita- 
ker entered the service as a member of the 
** Orange Light Infantry," which later formed 
a part of the " Bethel Eegiment " ; afterwards 
promoted to first Lieutenant and Adjutant of 
the Thirty- third North Carolina Regiment, 
Lane's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division, Jack- 
son's Corps ; was present at the battles of 
Bethel, New Bern, Harper's Ferry, Sharps- 
burg (" Antietam "), Fredericksburg, Ohan- 
cellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, 
Spottsylvania Court-House, Cold Harbor, 
Jones's Farm, Fuzzle's Mill, Gravelly Hill, 
Petersburg, and Appomattox ; was captured 
at New Bern, and for three months held pris- 
oner at Governor's Island, the Rip Raps, and 
Fort Delaware. 

WHITAKER, DE BERN I ERE, (7), son of Lieu- 
tenant Spier Whitaker, above mentioned. 

WHITAKER, PERCY DU PONCEAU, (10), son of 
Lieutenant Spier Whitaker, above mentioned. 

WHITAKER, VERNON EDELEN, (8), son of Lieu- 
tenant Spier Whitaker, above mentioned. 



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YANCEY, THOMAS BLACKNALL, (22), son of 
Thomas Blacknall Yancey, who enlisted in 
"Clark City Volunteers," in Arkansas, on 
April 25, 1861 ; on May 10, this company be- 
came Company C, First Arkansas Regiment; 
elected First Lieutenant on March 30, 1862 ; 
resigned in summer of 1862 to join North Car- 
olina troops, but resignation not accepted till 
December 6, 1862 ; on June 8, 1863, left North 
Carolina to join the troops of that State in 
Virginia ; enlisted as private in cavalry ; cap- 
tured July 5, and taken to Fort Delaware ; 
afterwards imprisoned at Point Lookout ; ex- 
changed in September, 1864, and arrived at 
home on the 29th of that month ; enlisted in 
Fifty-fourth North Carolina Regiment, on 
February 17, 1865 ; was in assault on Fort Hare 
and in bat-ties of Mumfordsville, Perry ville, 
Second Manassas (second " Bull Run "), Shi- 
loh, Gettysburg, Petersburg, and numerous 
skirmishes ; wounded March 29, 1865. 



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